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ESSENTIAL
QUESTION (optional)
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CONTENT
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SKILLS
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ASSESSMENT
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RESOURCE
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August
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September
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What is weather?
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FOSS Air and Weather Unit and
materials.
Weather describes
conditions in the air outside.
Weather conditions change over time.
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Communicate
processes.
Understand that
scientists called meteorologists use tools to observe weather
conditions. Temperature is measured
with a thermometer, rain gauges measure how much rain or snow has fallen,
and clouds are made of water drops.
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Science Notebook:
Weather observations
date/picture/written response.
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Related books and
tools for students to use in monthly weather charts and observations.
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October
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How does weather change
daily and seasonally?
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Notice which local
weather conditions change from season to season.
Weather observations can
be organized and used to make comparisons.
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Continue to observe
and record daily weather changes.
Compare changes that have happened in the daily weather. Report results.
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FOSS weather
calendar.
*Graph weather results, #
of days etc.
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FOSS Air and
Weather materials and related books.
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November
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What causes wind?
Where is air?
What tools do
Meteorologists use?
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Wind is moving air. Bubbles can show the changing direction
and speed of the wind.
Meteorologists use tools to determine the direction and speed of the
wind.
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Wonder and ask
questions based on observations or wind and air.
Make predictions of the
results of an investigation using air/bubbles/ and other materials in the
wind.
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FOSS Assessments
Notebook:
If I were a
Meteorologist, I would use...
Kite Assessment
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FOSS:
Air and Weather materials
Related books
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December
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January
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What are properties
of solids? What are properties of liquids
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FOSS Solids and Liquids
Unit and Materials.
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We use our senses to
observe properties. Liquids pour and
take on the shape of their container.
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Make observations of solids and liquids and how they
react in different situations.
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February
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How is the behavior of
small solids similar and different to that of liquids? How can solid particles be separated
with a screen?
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Observe and record the
characteristics of solids and liquids and how they interact together.
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Observe how water changes
from a solid to a liquid and back again based on external temperature
changes. FOSS Assessments
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Notebook Assessment
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FOSS Solids and Liquids
materials and related books.
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March
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What makes an insect an insect?
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Insects have
characteristic structures and behaviors.
Insects have different structures for eating different kinds of
food. Insects can live underground, above ground and in water.
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Observation, recording
characteristics and changes observed with pictures and words. Collecting data and tracking changes on a
calendar.
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FOSS Assessment (see
sheet #5) “How can you tell if something is an insect?”
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FOSS Insects Materials
and related books.
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April
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What is the life cycle of
a butterfly?
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Insects (like
butterflies) need all the above. The
life cycle of a butterfly is: egg,
larva, pupa, and adult.
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Understanding and use of
vocabulary of the butterfly life cycle and comparison of butterflies to
other insects.
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FOSS Assessments
Draw and label the life
cycle of a butterfly.
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FOSS Insects
Materials and
related books.
Butterfly larva ordered
from Insect Lore.
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May
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What organisms live at
the rocky shore beach, observable at low tide? How do these organisms depend on each
other and their environment to survive?
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Students will observe and
identify barnacles, hermit crabs, mussels, seaweed, crabs, and clams at Birch Bay State Park. Students will begin to understand the
interdependence and life cycle of these organisms.
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Observation, recording
characteristics observed with pictures and words, collecting data,
vocabulary of seashore creatures found, comparisons of the various
creatures found at low tide.
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Teacher observation of
student journals which show creatures found at low tide on a rocky shore at
Birch Bay State Park.
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Teacher generated
materials, Ranger Rick Nature Scope Diving into Oceans, Delta Science Kit.
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June
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